Unix 脚本将文件移动到文件夹

Question

I have a folder work and the below script searches for .txt or .csv files and moves the files into completed folder. I created one more folder (APEX) inside work folder, but the files from APEX folder are not moving to the completed folder and giving below error. I would like all the .txt or .csv files in my-test-folder/work and my-test-folder/work/APEX files to be moved to my-test-folder/done.I do not have a folder /my-test-folder/completed/APEX/ ,nor I want the files to be moved there.

Error : mv: cannot move ./my-test-folder/work/APEX/test1.txt to ./my-test-folder/completed/APEX/test1.txt : No such file or directory

 find .  -path "*work*" \( -iname "*.txt" -o -iname "*.csv" \) -exec bash -c "mv {} \`echo {} | sed -e 's/work/completed/g' \` "  \;

Answer 1

If you don't want to keep the same directory hierarchy in my-test-folder/completed as in my-test-folder/work , you can simplify your command:

find full/path/to/work -iname "*.txt" -o -iname "*.csv" -exec mv "{}" full/path/to/completed \;

Note that this will not remove empty directories left after moving all the files out. You can do this if you are using GNU find with the following command:

find work -empty -delete